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NEW! Coptic NT Versions

J. Warren Wells of Sahidica.org has graciously permitted BibleWorks users to use his suite of New Testament Coptic texts. Three new versions are available:

Sahidic Coptic New Testament (SANT)

Bohairic Coptic New Testament (BONT)

New Testament according to the Egyptian Greek (NTEG)

Here's a screen shot that shows the Greek text reconstructed from the Sahidic Coptic version compared against the BGT. It also shows the Bohairic and Sahidic texts in parallel:

Release notes:

The two Coptic (SANT, BONT) databases do not use a standard BibleWorks font. Instead, you must install the Uncial Sans Serif font (UncialSS.ttf) into your c:\windows\fonts directory.

Command line searches will work in the Coptic texts, but the command line will not display characters correctly.

The Coptic texts have been defined as "English" texts. Unfortunately the VDC would not allow them to be compiled as "other," and it does not give a "Coptic" option. [This probably explains the previously mentioned problem with the command line.]

The NTEG has been compiled for use with standard BibleWorks Greek fonts. This facilitates the comparison of the reconstructed Egyptian texts against other BW Greek texts.

The compiler of these BibleWorks files does not know Coptic (yet), so those who do have facility with the language are welcome to make suggestions.

Undaunted, I proceeded to download the grammar (thinking the two zips may have gotten switched) following the link in the same first entry of this thread, and got my old friend "The page cannot be found"

To add injury to insult, BW forum has 4 times blanked the "reply" screen when I had most of this typed in, and informed my that I wasn't logged in.

The unofficial BibleWorks Blog, which hosts many user database downloads, was completely erased a few weeks ago. It may be that not all the files you are seeking have been restored. You may want to check the thread concerning the blog for information about this. If you can't wait, some of us might be able to e-mail you the zipped files you desire.
Mark Eddy